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Henri Barakat
Henry Antoun Barakat (, 11 June 1914, Cairo – 27 May 1997, Cairo) was a well known Egyptian film director. Biography He was born in Shubra to a Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Melkite Greek Catholic father of Syro-Lebanese in Egypt, Syro-Lebanese descent, and a Syro-Lebanese mother. His father, Dr. Antoun Barakat, was a physician and received the title of Beik by the King for the services he rendered. During a career spanning for 50 years. He worked in different eras of the Egyptian film industry, directed 65 films, many of which are considered notable in Cinema of Egypt, Egyptian cinema. He made a large number of films with a number of extremely famous stars, including ten films with Farid al-Atrash, Farid Al-Atrash, three films with Abdel Halim Hafez, three films with Leila Mourad, Layla Mourad, two films with Salah Zulfikar, two films with Sabah (singer), Sabah, two films with Mohamed Fawzi (musician), Mohamed Fawzy, two films with Fairuz, and two films with Huda Sultan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of largest cities in the Arab world, the Arab world, and List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East, the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is List of largest cities, one of the largest in the world by population with over 22.1 million people. The area that would become Cairo was part of ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis, Egypt, Memphis and Heliopolis (ancient Egypt), Heliopolis are near-by. Located near the Nile Delta, the predecessor settlement was Fustat following the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman empire, Roman fortress, Babylon Fortress, Babylon. Subsequently, Cairo was founded by the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid dynasty in 969. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Miss Devil
''Little Miss Devil'' () is a 1949 Egyptian musical comedy film directed by Henry Barakat. The plot is about Asfour, a poor singer, played by Syrian musician Farid Al Atrache, who falls in love with Aleya, the somewhat spoiled daughter of his boss. Plot Asfour wants to marry Aleya, but her father won't let the marriage happen due to Asfour's class status. Asfour turns to a genie for help, but the genie, a female genie named Kahramana, played by noted Egyptian actress and dancer Samia Gamal, falls in love with Asfour instead, and tries to manipulate his desires. Release Following the publicity of Gamal's marriage to Texan Shepherd King in 1951, the film became the first Egyptian film to receive a regular theatrical release in the United States, opening December 7, 1951 in New York City. The New York state censor reportedly deleted one dance scene that had a close up of Gamal's lower abdomen. Reception According to the British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Berlin International Film Festival
The 10th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1960. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' El Lazarillo de Tormes'' directed by César Fernández Ardavín. Juries The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: Main Competition * Harold Lloyd, American actor, filmmaker and producer - Jury President * Georges Auric, French composer * Henry Reed, British composer * Sohrab Modi, Indian actor, filmmaker and producer * Floris Luigi Ammannati, Italian director of the Venice Film Festival * Hidemi Ima, Japanese director * Joaquín de Entrambasaguas, Spanish philologist and historiographer * Frank Wisbar, West-German filmmaker * Georg Ramseger, West-German writer * Werner R. Heymann, West-German composer * Eva Staar, West-German Documentary and Short Films Competition * Johannes Eckardt, West-German film curator - Jury President * Tahar Cheriaa, Tunisian founder of the Carthage Film Days * Ludwig Gesek, Austrian wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Berlin International Film Festival
The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June to 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the French New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Truffaut. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' Les Cousins'' directed by Claude Chabrol. Juries The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: Main Competition * Robert Aldrich, American filmmaker - Jury President * Johan Jacobsen, Danish filmmaker and producer * Charles Ford, French writer and filmmaker * John Bryan, British production designer * Ignazio Tranquilli, Italian writer and playwright * Shigeo Miyata, Japanese painter and physician * Wali Eddine Sameh, Emirati director * O. E. Hasse, West-German actor * Gerhard Prager, West-German writer and producer * Fritz Podehl, West-German producer * Walther Schmieding, West-German journalist Documentary and Short Films Competition * Curt Oertel, West- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicked Game (film)
''Wicked Game'' (Egyptian Arabic: لعبة الأشرار translit: ''Loubat El Ashrar'' or ''Luebat al'ashrar or Lou’bat Al-Achrar'' aliases: ''The Game of the Wicked'') is an Egyptian crime thriller released in 1991. It stars Salah Zulfikar and is directed by Henry Barakat. Synopsis Author Riyad Kamel marries the beautiful Camelia despite her previous relationship with Azmi, his lawyer. While Azmi marries Manar, who is Raiyad's secretary. Manar suspects that Azmi and Camellia are back together. She records a tape for Camelia urging Azmi to kill Manar and Riyad, so she plots to take them down. Main cast * Salah Zulfikar Salah El-Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar (, ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a Egyptian National Police, police officer, before becoming an actor in 1956. He is regarded as one o ... * Athar El-Hakim * Samir Sabri * Safaa El Sabaa * Awatef Abdel Fattah * Ziad Mukouk * Salah Azzam * Fad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouths And Rabbits
''Mouths and Rabbits'' (, transliterated as ''Afwah wa araneb'') is an Egyptian film released in 1977, produced by the United Film Company, and directed by Henry Barakat. Synopsis The film explores issues of poverty and unplanned families. Nima (Faten Hamama lives with her older sister and the latter’s husband Abdulmajid, who have nine children between them. Abdulmajid is an alcoholic railroad worker who neglects his family. The couple decides to marry Nima off to a teacher named Al-Batawi to financially stabilize the household, prompting Nima to flee to Mansoura while Al-Batawi is married with papers Abdulmajid forges. In Mansoura, Nima finds work on the farm of a gentleman named Mahmoud Bey, who falls in love with her after separating from his fiancée. On her return to inform her sister, Nima brings Mahmoud Bey, who encounters a livid Al-Batawi and fights back ending in the latter’s stabbing. Devastated, Abdulmajid acknowledges his error and allows Nima to marry Mahmoud, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman With A Bad Reputation
''A Woman With a Bad Reputation'' ( "Imraah sayiah al-samah") is a 1973 Egyptian film directed by Henry BarakatArmes, p388 and starring Shams al-Baroudi.Anderson, Lisa. "Egypt's cultural shift reflects Islam's pull." ''Chicago Tribune''. March 21, 2004. p3 Retrieved on February 21, 2013. Plot A young man asks his wife to dance with his boss at a party. The woman gets into an affair with the boss and commits infidelity. Her marriage dissolves and her life worsens. Her son has an illness, so the wife is forced to accept gifts from the boss. Lisa Anderson of the ''Chicago Tribune''. uses the film as an example of more liberal filmmaking in Egypt prior to an increase in social conservatism in society. At the party in the beginning of the film, the women wear hot pants and miniskirts. The partygoers dance, smoke cigarettes, and drink alcohol. None of the women are in hijab. Cast * Shams al-Baroudi * Yousuf Shaaban * Salama Elias * Nagwa Fouad * Emad Hamdy * George Sidhom See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witch (short Film)
''Witch'' (Egyptian Arabic: ساحرة, translit. Sahira) is a 1971 Egyptian television short film written by Tawfiq al-Hakim and directed by Henry Barakat. It stars Salah Zulfikar and Faten Hamama. The film is produced by Egyptian Television Network. Synopsis The events take place in the year 1948, where delusions dominate the mind of Souad and she believes that she can be linked to Ezz El-Din, the man she loves through magic, so she puts a piece of sugar that she brought from one of the impostors in his cup of tea for her lover, Ezz El-Din. She manages to marry him, but the magic turns against the magician, as Ezz El-Din suffers severe pain in his stomach and learns about it. Cast * Salah Zulfikar as Ezz El-Din * Faten Hamama as Souad * Adel Emam as Waiter * Saeed Saleh as Waiter See also * Short film * Nefertiti y Aquenatos ''Nefertiti y Aquenatos'' ( English: Nefertiti and Akhenaten) is a 1973 Mexican television short film directed by Raúl Araiza. It stars Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Women (1968 Film)
Three Women (Egyptian Arabic: ٣ نساء, translit: ''Thalath Nisa'') is an Egyptian film released in 1968. It tells three separate stories about three women, featuring Sabah, Huda Sultan and Mervat Amin as the three women. The film is written by Ihsan Abdel Quddous and stars Salah Zulfikar, Ahmed Ramzy and Shoukry Sarhan. The first story: Hana Plot Hana (Mervat Amin), an air hostess, loves Adel (Salah Zulfikar), the architect, but she meets Sami (Samir Shamas), the Lebanese pilot, and she also falls in love with him. The choice is settled. Cast * Salah Zulfikar: (Adel) * Mervat Amin: (Hana) * Samir Chamas: (Sami) * Abdel Moneim Ibrahim: (Abdul Hamid Zuhdi) * Ragaa El Geddawy: (Hana's colleague) * Nadia Seif Al-Nasr: (Hana's colleague) * Alia Abdel Moneim: (Hana's mother) * Atef Makram: (Adel is Hana's brother) Staff * Directed by: Mahmoud Zulfikar * Screenplay and dialogue: Mohamed Abu Yousef * Director of Photography: Waheed Farid The second story: Tawheed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safar Barlik (film)
''Safar Barlik'' () is a 1967 Lebanese musical and war film directed by Henry Barakat. The film stars Fairuz, Nasri Shamseddine, Huda, Assi Rahbani, Berj Fazlian, Salah Tizani and Salwa Haddad. It was filmed in the northern villages of Beit Chabab and Douma in Lebanon. Plot Set in Lebanon in 1914, during the first world war, the Ottoman Empire is trying to starve the Lebanese people by stopping wheat from entering the country. The Empire is also taking men and forcing them into slavery Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavemen ... and among these men is Abdo, the fiance of Adla. When Adla is taken, she searches for Abdo. Cast * Fairuz as Adla * Nasri Shamseddine as Elmoukhtar * Huda as Zoumorod * Assi Rahbani as Abou Ahmed * Berj Fazlian as Re'fat Bek * Rafic Sabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Haram (film)
''The Sin'' (, translit. Al Haram ) is a classical 1965 Egyptian drama film directed by Henry Barakat. The film stars Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom, and Abdullah Gaith and is based on a novel by the same title by Yūsuf Idrīs. The film was nominated for the Prix International award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. It was also chosen as one of the best 100 Egyptian film productions in the Egyptian cinema centennial. A survey by ''Al-Fonoon'' magazine in 1984 chose it as one of the best ten films in Top 100 films the history of Egyptian cinema. Plot Azizah, a poor peasant, portrays worker oppression in this somber social drama. She gets savagely raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes. She does not reveal what had happened to her husband who is suffering from an illness. She conceals the pregnancy and throttles the baby after it is born. She also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Open Door (1963 Film)
''The Open Door'' (Egyptian Arabic: الباب المفتوح, translit. ''El-Bab el-Maftuh'') is a 1963 Egyptian drama film directed by Henry Barakat and starring Faten Hamama, Saleh Selim, and Mahmoud Moursy. The film was adapted from Egyptian writer Latifa al-Zayyat's 1960 novel of the same name and recipient of the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.Oliver Leaman Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film 1134662521 - 2003 - Some of Barakat's highly praised films were literary adaptations, such as the patriotic Fi Baytinna Rajul/ A Man in our House (1961) and the quasi-feminist al-Bab al-Maftuh / The Open Door (1963). Barakat discovered, moreover, the Lebanese singer Sabah (singer) and presented her for the first time in al-Qalb Lahu Wahid/ The Heart Loves Only One in 1945. He directed in Lebanon two of the most successful musicals, starring the Rahbani Brothers and the singer Fayruz (singer) Safar Barlak (1967) .. Plot Set in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
